In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

The less you know, the more you believe.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.